Andrew Huberman· PhD
The key thing to optimizing dopamine is to be sure that the reward you experience is scaled with the effort involved to obtain it.
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The key thing to optimizing dopamine is to be sure that the reward you experience is scaled with the effort involved to obtain it.
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what we're talking about here is effort that precedes dopamine yeah and I'm a big believer that dopamine that is not preceded by effort is very dangerous
I'm certain that dopamine that is high levels of dopamine that are not preceded by effort are not just bad they are downright dangerous
any dopamine reward that is not preceded by substantial effort, you know, can potentially destroy us in the form of addiction, but also leads to a drop in that baseline of dopamine at other times.
So what I think is very dangerous um and we talked about before on this podcast is um this notion of dopamine that's not preceded by effort.